Cosmetic surgery has been on the rise in Latin America in recent years. In the 1990s, the procedure became popular among the most affluent women. At the same time, several headlines were reporting deaths due to surgeries being done by uncertified doctors. Despite the negative press, such procedures soon spread to all economic strata of Latin America. Brazil reported 2.5 million procedures in 2019, Mexico 1.2 million, and Colombia 413,000, according to statistics compiled by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. They are among the countries with the largest number of operations performed. (Topping the list is the U.S.,…
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Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube” baby, was born in 1978 through in vitro fertilization. In IVF, sperm and egg meet outside the body and the best resulting embryo is implanted into the womb in hopes of a healthy pregnancy. “There have been so many advancements in the bioscience aspects of IVF since then, but it lags behind other healthcare verticals big time as far as data science — and there is a lot of data that is not being used,” said Eran Eshed, CEO and co-founder of Fairtility. “Today, the process of assisted reproductive technology is based on…
LAHORE, Pakistan — As the Afghanistan government agrees to talks with the Taliban in Moscow on Thursday following the proposal by the Joseph R. Biden regime in the U.S., the security situation in Pakistan is worsening. The areas bordering Afghanistan provinces, encompassing the volatile provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, have seen the resurgence of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the rise of the Islamic State in recent months. The TTP’s re-emergence in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) was witnessed in 2019 when locals from Miranshah in Pakistan’s Waziristan started receiving fatwas asking for bans on music, women leaving their homes, and polio vaccinations. The threats…
Israel’s bustling city of Eilat, at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea, is renowned for beaches, hotels and one of the world’s northernmost coral reefs. Magnificent, colorful, diverse corals, sponges, giant clams, fish and other marine life make these reefs a national and world treasure. Barely 40 feet offshore and only five miles long, the reefs link with Egypt’s reefs along the Sinai Desert to the south and lie just miles from reefs off Aqaba, Jordan, to the east. But Eilat’s corals are being loved to death. Over 60,000 city residents join hundreds of…
CHENNAI, India — While women should be celebrated throughout the year, March is the solitary month in the calendar with days earmarked for such celebrations — International Women’s Day on March 8 and Mother’s Day on March 14. The celebrations went a notch up this year when U.S.-based tech giant Apple announced March as Women’s History Month to showcase and amplify female voices across its platforms ranging from the App Store to its Podcasts. A quick look at recommendations for Indian women on the iOS App Store and Google’s Play Store throws up stereotypical and generic results — from menstrual cycle trackers such…
GOLD COAST, Australia — A Gold Coast mother accused of murdering her two adult children with disabilities for insurance payouts was “very controlling” of her son, a court has heard. Maree Mavis Crabtree faces a string of charges, including counts of murdering her daughter Erin, 18, in 2012, and son Jonathan, 26, five years later. Both siblings had disabilities, with police alleging they died from being forced to take prescription medication. Crabtree, 54, is also charged with attempting to murder Jonathan six months before his death and the grievous bodily harm and torture of a woman aged in her 20s. Erin was found…
MELBOURNE, Australia — Nineteen-year-old Nate Hakiwai knew he was about to black out when he rang his father to say he and his 17-year-old brother Maaka Hakiwai had just been stabbed. Hakiwai has given evidence in the murder trial of Joshua Horton, 19, who has been accused of murdering Maaka at Kings Park, a suburb 26 km (16 miles) north-west from Australia’s most livable city Melbourne’s Central Business District in the state of Victoria, in September 2019. “We were waiting at a bus stop near [our] house on way to the gym when a car pulled up and two strangers got out,”…
SYDNEY — An Australian actor, Blake Davis, 31, was sent to prison for five years and three months for killing a man with a samurai sword during a failed home invasion. The victim was a rapper named Jett Mckee. Known for films and series such as The Slap (2011), Dead Gorgeous (2010), and Bed of Roses (2008), Davis was acquitted of murder charges last year but was found guilty of manslaughter for the incident that occurred in 2018. McKee had pointed a fake gun at Davis, and his girlfriend Hannah Quinn threatened the lives of their families and punched Davis in the face with knuckledusters when…
BAHARIYA OASIS, Egypt — A French-Norwegian archeological team has unearthed an ancient Christian site in the Sahara Desert, revealing the ‘monastic life’ of the region that dates to the fifth century AD. The team discovered 19 buildings and a church with biblical passages and religious inscriptions. “The complex was made up of six sectors containing the ruins of three churches and monks’ quarters. Several buildings made of basalt, others carved into the bedrock and some made of mud bricks,” said Egypt’s antiquities ministry. Picture of an ancient Christian inscription that was discovered in the Western Desert, an area of the Sahara…
A call by the United Nations for Algeria’s government to investigate allegations of human rights abuses, including torture, arbitrary arrest and sexual assault, has so far gone unanswered. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on March 5 urged Algeria to launch “a quick, impartial and rigorous investigation” into allegations of severe human rights abuses against pro-democracy demonstrators. Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the office of the high commissioner, said there were “credible reports” of torture by security forces, and that the United Nations was very concerned about deteriorating conditions in the country. Thousands of Algerians have…